Community | March 24, 2009 | 10 comments

Pope: Condoms could worsen Aids

source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/03/20093183550676229.html

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The Roman Catholic pope has come under renewed criticism after saying that condoms are not the solution to Africa's HIV epidemic.

Pope Benedict XVI made the remarks as he started a seven-day tour of the continent on Tuesday.

An estimated 22 million people in Africa have HIV, the virus that leads to Aids.

Three-quarters of all Aids deaths in 2007 were in sub-Saharan Africa.

"You can't resolve it [Aids] with the distribution of condoms," the pope said. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

He will later travel to Angola on a tour that aims to raise awareness of Africa's key problems - famine, poverty and armed conflict.

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Pope Benedict XVI's ignorant comments also raise awareness of Africa's other key problem, religion.
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10 comments // Pope: Condoms could worsen Aids

  • sickinjersey
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      sickinjersey  

    • blame the church not condoms. blame the scientists ho discovered the polio vaccine.it is the struggle between right and wrong and i understand and believe in monogamy.but the fact is trust can not protect you. tradition cannot protect you. one bad decision must be accompanied by a condom.rape? church?

    • 3 years ago
  • sickinjersey
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      sickinjersey  

    • education and then condoms. it is very simple even in a church.we love our brothers and sisters we will teach them not the government or the churches or the obama youth brigade. just us. we can help.

    • 3 years ago
  • humanpasta
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      humanpasta  

    • karlman01, Good link. I think that condoms don't worsen the problem, but-- like your link states-- It's the way that they are being distriputed and to whom (often the teenagers) without taking any cultural standards into account. If you were just to play rock-and-roll in a van and throw out condoms to everyone that walks past, in a conservative society, thats not going to fly and condoms are not going to get used.

    • 3 years ago
  • karlman01
  • LarzNero
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      LarzNero  

    • Maybe he thinks by distributing condoms you are reminding people they can have sex? I don't really get the pope's statement. Doesn't make sense.

      Don't believe everyone who wears a goofy hat.

      Whoops.

    • 3 years ago
  • Varex_Sythe
  • ruberube
  • jeich55
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      jeich55  

    • screw the pope! He is the head of the church in the end time referred to as the beast. a satanic inspired entity which is in direct oposition to gods plan for mankind. he sits on a throne and drinks out of gold chalices while people starve and live with no hone. he rides around in his own limo and has his own palace. he is a phoney and full of shit. rope the pope!

    • 3 years ago
  • jeich55
  • covelogibbs
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      covelogibbs  

    • Two thirds of the world's people who have the HIV/Aids virus live in sub-Saharan Africa, where Pope Benedict has come under criticism for saying during a recent visit that condoms are not the solution.

      In Angola, few people are willing to talk openly about the virus.

      But the government has launched a new Aids awareness campaign, warning of the dangers of unprotected sex.

      Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege has the story from Luanda.

    • 3 years ago
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